Govor Travnika krajem XIX stoljeća: Fonetsko-fonološke osobenosti
The spoken language of Travnik at the end of the 19th century: Phonetic and Phonological Features

Summary/Abstract: The Travnik speech belongs to the Central Bosnian sub-dialect of the Ikavian-New Shtokavian (western) dialect. This dialect covers the area between the rivers Bosna and Verbas. Its characteristics are: ikavizam, šćakavizam, weaker residues of the old declension, but also compactness in the area of prosody. Majority of the speech of the newer Ikavian dialect has a stable four-accent system. There is scarce data on the Travnik speech at the end of 19th century. Most data is provided by nine questionnaires from the survey Questions in the Speech of Ordinary People. They are a part of the collection from 1897 at the National Museum in Sarajevo. The data from those questionnaires has not been comprehensively presented or processed so far. The questionnaires have 150 questions related to the phonetic-phonological, morphological, syntax and lexical characteristics of the speech and they were filled by literate people. The data from those questionnaires was used in this paper. The purpose of this paper is to determine the characteristics of the Travnik speech at the end of the 19th century at the phonetic-phonological levels. The data from those nine questionnaires filled in the Travnik region is precious for dialectology of the Central Bosnian region.

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